Fwd: Re: [MV] battery charger

From: Greg Booth (m38a11952@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 07 2005 - 19:26:39 PST


A while back I bought a 24 volt battery charger at a
garage sale for $15.00 I put the slave end in the
charger works great. This charger is for charging a
battery powered floor sweeper They usually have 2- 12
volt or 4- 6 volt battery's. They can be found if you
don't mind looking.
Greg
--- m35products <m35prod@optonline.net> wrote:
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
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> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:57:37 -0500
> From: m35products <m35prod@optonline.net>
> Subject: Re: [MV] battery charger
>
> Actually, if you are talking about a standard
> lead-acid battery, as long as
> the input voltage is high enough, and you limit the
> current to a sensible
> amount, the battery is self-limiting. As a lead-acid
> battery goes from
> discharged to charged, its internal resistance goes
> from low (allowing high
> current to flow in) to high, as it approaches fully
> charged (limiting the
> charging current)
>
> There are chargers that have sophisticated circuitry
> that will fine-tune the
> process, but any lead-acid battery, including
> gel-cells, will behave this
> way.
>
> apb
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Garrett" <j.garrett@verizon.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] battery charger
>
>
> > Speaking of battery chargers, someone posted a
> link to a source awhile
> back.
> >
> > It was a 24 volt to 12 volt battery charger. Does
> anyone remember the
> link?
> >
> > I want to set up a 12 volt "house" battery and
> charge it from my 24 volt
> > system. Because it involves charging batteries, a
> 24 volt to 12 volt
> > transformer isn't enough. If I am not mistaken,
> that would cook my 12
> volt
> > batteries.
> >
> > Joe Garrett
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> > Behalf Of grntrks@juno.com
> > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 12:49 PM
> > To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [MV] battery charger
> >
> >
> > Sorry guys. The charger is sold.
> >
> > Frank Cox ' Nam 1966
> > MVPA 14530
> > '45 GMC 353 DUKW
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Greg Booth MVPA # 24369
1952 M38A1
1969 M274A5

        
                
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